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A Supplementary English Glossary J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps,Thomas Lewis Owen Davies Limited preview - 2024 |
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Alton Locke Bishop Breton Bronte Brown called Camden cant Carlyle Chapman Church Cloister and Hearth D'Arblay Daniel Deronda Davies devil Diary Dicts Doctor doth Edgeworth Eliot English Examen extract s. v. eyes Fool of Quality Fuller Gauden give Grandison Hacket Harlowe hath haue head heart Herrick Hesperides Hist Holland's Camden Holy honour horse Ibid Iliad Ingoldsby Legends Jane Eyre King Kingsley Lady Lenten Stuffe Harl Letters Lord Guilford Lorna Doone means Middlemarch Misc Miss never Newcomes Parly of Beasts person Pindar Princess of Thule Quincey Quixote quotation s. v. Rabelais Ravenshoe Sartor Resartus Sermons slang Southey Stanyhurst Sylvester Sylvia's Lovers Tears Tennyson term Thackeray thee thing thou Tom Brown Tour thro Udal's Erasmus's Apophth unto verb viii Walpole Westward Ho Williams Wolcot woman word Worthies
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Page 299 - For he that fights and runs away May live to fight another day, But he that is in battle slain Will never rise to fight again.
Page 116 - Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field; that, of course, they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little, shrivelled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour.
Page 585 - This chase was now at an end: and the fellow who drove her came to us, and discovered that he was ordered to come again in an hour, for that she was a silkworm. I was surprised with this phrase, but found it was a cant among the hackney fraternity for their best customers, women who ramble twice or thrice a week from shop to shop, to turn over all the goods in town without buying any thing. The silk-worms are, it seems, indulged by the tradesmen...
Page 348 - ... man only can be aware of the insensibility of man towards a new gown. It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies could they be made to understand how little the heart of man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire ; how little it is biassed by the texture of their muslin, and how unsusceptible of peculiar tenderness towards the spotted, the sprigged, the mull or the jackonet.
Page 169 - ALL that I know Of a certain star Is, it can throw (Like the angled spar) Now a dart of red, Now a dart of blue; Till my friends have said They would fain see, too, My star that dartles the red and the blue! Then it stops like a bird; like a flower, hangs furled: They must solace themselves with the Saturn above it. What matter to me if their star is a world? Mine has opened its soul to me; therefore I love it.
Page 520 - His great learning, his immense diligence, his scholarlike mind, his simple devotion to the cause of religion, overcame me; and great of course was my joy, when in the last days of 1833 he showed a disposition to make common cause with us. His Tract on Fasting appeared as one of the series with the date of December 21. He was not, however, I think fully associated in the Movement till 1835 and 1836, when he published his Tract on Baptism, and started the Library of the Fathers.
Page 135 - This doth the Comedy handle so in our private and domestical matters, as with hearing it we get as it were an experience, what is to be looked for of a niggardly Demea, of a crafty Davus, of a flattering Gnatho, of a vainglorious Thraso...
Page 518 - John smiled, as much as to say, "that would be foolish indeed." And then I told how, when she came to die, her funeral was attended by a concourse of all the poor, and some of the gentry too, of the...
Page 418 - tis true I have gone here and there And made myself a motley to the view, Gored mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear, Made old offences of affections new.
Page 376 - And star-dials pointed to morn, As the star-dials hinted of morn, At the end of our path a liquescent And nebulous lustre was born, Out of which a miraculous crescent Arose with a duplicate horn, Astarte's bediamonded crescent Distinct with its duplicate horn.